Thursday, May 20, 2010

My Last Finals

These are the last finals I will ever do (unless I live long enough to ever make it/decide to do grad school).Finally finished the painting for Youngmi's class. Maybe it'll go faster when I figure out the perfect consistency for the white pigment, it's difficult because it goes on translucent, so I can't tell what it looks like until it dries....When I figure it out I'll paint a series, or maybe I'll give up and just snort the rest of that white powder/pigment.Also I took life drawing with Mary J. Arthur and this is my final and some work that I liked. It's a sophomore level class, but I still learned a LOT. A LOT. And it was nice approaching work in the complete opposite way. (no contour, shading, pencil/charcoal)My final is a simple self-portrait of my buried in a bed/coffin of books and food. Also I think I went full circle on this one, because this is the way I used to work when I was a freshman, not sure of my materials, lots of layering to make up for lack of skill, making a mess all over the place, hoping that the hours of effort would somehow be absorbed into the fibers of the paper...now I only work this way maybe 20% of the time.It looks depressing, but that would be the ideal way I'd like to go. That or exploding into flames on a neon star studded rhinestone motocycle.My roomate says that I would enjoy a heart attack, apparently it's akin to the warm fiery feeling I get after some tequila.

2 comments:

you don't need to have a heart attack to get that fiery feeling. you can hold your breath until it burns or exercise really intensely. you don't HAVE to die! (or take such a severe risk)

hahahah I like your emphatic cries of "A LOT. A LOT."

and re: "no contour, shading, and pencil/charcoal" what do you mean by tt? like, emphasis on shading & pencil/charcoal as opposed to digital/inks/etc (dunno what you use..)?

when I saw the first painting in your room, I felt uneasy but didn't really know why, but now I think it's prob cos of their skeletons showing. and smth abt their posture/expressions/handholding reminds me of haunted paintings that induce dastardly consequences upon all those who gaze upon!

i'm glad you had that creepy feeling with that painting, I was thinking a lot of things when I was making it. I'll prob explain it more to you in person rather than post it here.

also " no contour, shading and pencil/charcaol" means that usually i draw with contour rather than start from the inside, i usually use flat colors instead of shading to create volume, and i'm more comfortable with brush and ink instead of pencil.

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Ariyana is a native Marylander freelancing illustrator, artist, and comic artist. Her life is governed by work and fears, with food and eating periodically inserted in between. Ariyana apologizes in advance for her ridiculously long last name.